After the briefest bit of narrative
establishment — Captain Phillips (Tom Hanks) at home prepping to leave
for his latest assignment and his wife (Catherine Keener) dropping him
off at the airport — the by-the-books sailor runs his crew through their
paces sensing, it would seem, that something lurks on the horizon

Greengrass and Damon team up for another breathless thriller

This adaptation of Rajiv Chandrasekaran's book 'Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone' follows Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Matt Damon) as he and his team search for weapons of mass destruction and end up exposing a massive and damaging cover-up that, while fictionalized here, feels like non-fiction with a heaping dose of action heroics thrown into the mix for good measure. Grade: A-.